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• Xbox One review: More than a game console, less than a living room revolution – Reviews of Microsoft’s new game/entertainment console are out, and they’re largely positive. This one’s from Ars Technica, read others from Polygon, The Verge, Engadget, Tom’s Guide, Gizmodo, TechCrunch. Full roundup at Techmeme. • In final shareholder speech, Ballmer defends …

• Apple releases iOS 7.0.4 & iOS 6.1.5 with FaceTime bug fix – FaceTime had been failing for some users. • Apple Stores resort to pen and paper as point-of-sale outages continue – The stores go old school as their bar code scanning systems go down. • The Inside Story of How the iPad Got …

• The iPad Air Review (AnandTech) and Speed and Power Packed Into a Thin iPad Air (Walt Mossberg) – Reviews of the iPad Air are out in advance of its going on sale on Friday. The general consensus: It breathes new life into the 10-inch tablet category, and is noticeably faster, thinner and lighter. Also …

• Is Google building a hulking floating data center in SF Bay? – If the mysterious structure being built off Treasure Island is a data center, it will be powered by wave action and cooled by sea water. Great work by CNet off digging out the apparent link to Google. • DirecTV, Time Warner Cable …

• Source: Comcast Launching HBO Broadband Bundle Aimed at Netflix – It’s a combo of basic cable with an HBO/HBO Go subscription, video on demand and Comcast’s own streaming service, targeting cord cutters. But it starts at $40 a month and ends up as high as $80. Checking on whether it will be available in …

• T-Mobile to Make It Cheaper to Make Calls While Abroad – T-Mobile now offers free data roaming and text messaging in 100 countries, and has cut the price of voice calls while traveling to 20 cents a minute. • PC Shipments: It Could Have Been Worse (and Probably Will Be) – Global PC shipments …

• Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos – The founder of Amazon.com pays $250 million for the newspaper that broke Watergate and brought down a president. The obvious jokes here: Did he use One-Click, and is it eligible for free delivery with Prime? (Note the purchase was by Bezos personally, not on behalf …

• Google, Facebook, Microsoft seek privacy points by asking permission to disclose data requests – The three big tech companies ask the government to allow them to make public requests for data. Google even publishes its letter to the feds. • A.C.L.U. Sues to Bar ‘Dragnet’ Collection of Phone Records and StopWatching.Us: Mozilla launches massive …

• Much iOS 7 design inspiration came from others but Apple elegantly puts it all together and Designed in California, with an Assist from Redmond – The redesigned iOS 7 is a blend of classic iOS, Windows Phone, webOS and Android. Also The design of iOS 7: simply confusing • Apple iOS 7: supported on …

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